We’ll have to wait a bit longer to learn what the project is, but IO will keep supporting Hitman 3 in the meantime, and with the approaching 007 game, studio fans will have things to sink their teeth into while awaiting more news.

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Abrak also revealed, humorously, that even the studio’s founders don’t recall what the “IO” in “IO Interactive” stands for. “There are a lot of myths about what it is. I’ve been with IO for more than 14 years now, but I’m not part of the founders… I still know most of them… when I ask them, they don’t even remember themselves, why, or what it was.”

“‘Input / Output’ is a good guess. Another one is ‘[one of Jupiter’s moons,] Io’ and stuff like that. They are having fun being secretive around that but, honestly, there’s not a clear, ‘This is it!’”

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